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COMING FULL CIRCLE
“I was raised pretty much stock seat, doing 4-H and college rodeo until I moved from Montana to Puget Sound and became hooked
on hunter-jumpers,” Jessie says. “I rode with a hunter-jumper trainer for a few years, but then he died and I didn’t have the heart to continue
in that discipline. I switched to dressage, and I just love it. It’s very rewarding and I love that its history traces back to the Greek military and then the Spanish conquistadores. There’s a real purpose to dressage. So, I’ve kind of come full circle and I’ve really enjoyed several different disciplines.”
She actually even owned a racehorse at one time. “When I lived in Great Falls, I bought this Moon Deck horse,” she says. “He wasn’t good enough to pay the bills, so I decided owning a racehorse wasn’t what my purpose was to be in life.”
Whatever the discipline, Jessie says her happy place is with horses, in any capacity.
“I don’t think there’s any better therapy than picking up a brush and brushing a horse and just being around and enjoying horses,” she says. And while she’s brushing that horse, she’s
Jessie owned a Moon Deck- bred racehorse when she lived in Great Falls, Montana.
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Jessie truly has a deep passion for the
horse industry and the people involved in it regardless of the breed or discipline.” - Jodie Sharp
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“She has a high energy level and a high drive to succeed.”
- Stan Sigman